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Posted on 01/02/2008 8:53:38 PM PST by nwctwx
Travel.State.Gov - Country Specific Information: “RUSSIAN FEDERATION”
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1006.html
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/01/the_cartoon_jihad_the_lie_that.php
blog:
“The ‘Cartoon Jihad’ - The Lie That Doesn’t Die”
By Andrew Cochran
(January 18, 2008, 2:45 pm)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A court in Belarus jailed, for three years, a newspaper editor who reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that first appeared in Denmark in 2005.”
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stepping back in time...
blog
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/02/fabricated_cartoons_worsened_d.php
“Fabricated cartoons worsened Danish controversy”
By Lorenzo Vidino
(March 3, 2006)
http://www.yumasun.com/video/index.php?bcpid=1156002562&bclid=1178176697&bctid=1384129742
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Discussion Forum:
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“Border agent killed by drug smuggler in Imperial County, California, 300 yards from Mexico border”
Roger Hedgecock show ^ | 1-19-08 | dfu
Posted on 01/19/2008 11:38:36 AM PST by doug from upland
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080118sandiego.htm
January 18, 2008
Woman pleads guilty to charges in forced labor and human smuggling scheme
SAN DIEGO - A Guatemalan woman pleaded guilty here yesterday to federal charges following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that revealed she and her husband ran a criminal organization that smuggled Mexican nationals into the United States and forced them to work using physical and verbal threats.
Gloria Eugenia Leon-Aldana, 37, pleaded guilty to three counts of bringing in illegal aliens for financial gain and one count of forced labor. As part of her plea, Leon-Aldana admitted she forced an alien to work by threatening to report him to the Border Patrol if he did not comply with her instructions. Leon-Aldana is scheduled to be sentenced April 7.
According to court documents, Leon-Aldana and her Mexican national husband, Mario Antonio Antunez-Sotelo, 44, harbored the smuggled aliens at two residences located in Logan Heights. The aliens held in those homes were repeatedly threatened and the couple took their identity documents to keep them from fleeing.
Antunez-Sotelo has been charged with threatening the aliens and their families with physical harm and brandishing a shotgun at one of the residences. He remains at large and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.
“This case underscores ICE’s resolve to work with its law enforcement partners to ensure that those who engage in this kind of reprehensible form of exploitation are brought to justice,” said Miguel Unzueta, special agent in charge for the ICE office of investigations in San Diego. “However, we can not do this alone. We need to hear from people in the community who have vital tips that will lead us to victims who may be living in fear.”
The charges stem from an ICE-led investigation into a longstanding criminal organization with ties to Los Angeles and Tijuana, Mexico. The two other defendants charged in the case, Juan Andres-Santos and Agustin Alonso-Terrero, pleaded guilty last week to one and three counts of smuggling aliens for financial gain, respectively. Andres-Santos was sentenced yesterday to time served, approximately 13 months in custody, and three years of supervised release. Alonso-Terrero’s sentencing is set for April 1.
ICE is seeking the public’s help in locating Antunez-Sotelo. Anyone with information about him is asked to contact the ICE tip line at 1-866-347-2423.
— ICE —
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“Spanish Police Arrest 14 in anti-terror raids”
(AFP)
19 January 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MADRID - Spanish police have smashed a suspected Islamist terror cell, arresting 14 people and recovering bomb-making equipment in overnight raids in Barcelona, the interior minister said on Saturday.
‘During our searches, we found various materials which could be explosives or be used to make explosives,’ Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told a press conference in Madrid.
Those arrested included 12 Pakistanis and two Indians, he said. Four timing devices as well as computer equipment which was still being examined were also recovered.
He said that the group could be characterised as ‘radical Islamist’, was ‘highly organised’ and was preparing to carry out an attack in the north-eastern Spanish city.
The operation, which saw five homes raided by police, was carried out on the basis of information gathered by Spain’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.
The intelligence suggested ‘the possibility that a terrorist action was being prepared on Spanish soil, in Barcelona to be precise,’ Rubalcaba said.”
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http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44367000/jpg/_44367007_materialap203c.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7197562.stm
Last Updated: Saturday, 19 January 2008, 17:36 GMT
“Spain arrests 14 terror suspects”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Bomb-related material has been found during raids in Barcelona which led to the arrest of 14 people suspected of links with an Islamist terror network.
Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said the suspects included 12 from Pakistan and two from India.
Local media reports that the Spanish intelligence agency had warned France, the UK and Portugal that a terror cell was preparing an imminent attack.
This coincides with a European tour by Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.”
Previously...
http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006276.php
04 January 2008
“THE FILES DOWNLOADED BY THE MADRID BOMBERS”
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Previously...
http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/005905.php
07 February 2007
“’FAVORITES’ OF THE MADRID BOMBERS”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956445/posts
“’We Want To Offer Sharia Law To Britain’”
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 1-19-2008 | Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Posted on 01/19/2008 3:12:02 PM PST by blam
‘We want to offer sharia law to Britain’”
By Clare Dwyer Hogg and Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Last Updated: 9:22pm GMT 19/01/2008Page 1 of 3
UPDATE:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=dmv+%2B+georgetown&btnG=Search+News
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http://www.examiner.com/a-1165756~Two_charged_amid_crackdown_on_illegal_licenses.html
“Two charged amid crackdown on illegal licenses”
Filed under: WASHINGTON , Scott McCabe , DMV Raid - D.C.
Jan 18, 2008 1:00 AM (1 day ago) by Scott McCabe, The Examiner
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A local restaurant owner was part of a scheme to provide illegal immigrants with fraudulent driver’s licenses, authorities said Thursday as new details about a raid on the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles center in Georgetown emerged.
Suspects purchased bogus IDs for several reasons; to hide their illegal immigrant status, because they couldn’t pass the driver’s test, or because they were involved in other criminal activities and wanted their identities hidden, FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “FBI officials were withholding the names of four persons arrested Wednesday, including the teller who worked at the DMV. One suspect was a minor, and another was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who was turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.”
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http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080117/METRO/389289317/1004
“Georgetown DMV raid nets 5 arrests”
By David C. Lipscomb
January 17, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Agents raided the branch, at 3222 M St. NW, at about 1 p.m. after a monthslong investigation into the sale of fake licenses, some of which were sold to “noncitizens,” city officials said.”
Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this article:
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=58912&archive=true
Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Sunday, January 6, 2008
“Pacific briefs”
“NCIS offers reward for details on arson”
NEWS BRIEF SNIPPET: “CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is offering a $2,500 reward for information concerning acts of arson Wednesday night on Camp Schwab.
Few details have been released. A Marine public affairs spokesman said two structures and one vehicle were involved.”
NEWS BRIEF SNIPPET: “Anyone with information is asked to call the Camp Foster headquarters of NCIS at 645-0213.”
Spain alerts Britain after foiling bomb plot on eve of Musharraf visit
January 20, 2008
SPANISH police say they have foiled an attempt by Islamic extremists to carry out bomb attacks coinciding with a state visit to Europe by Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan. It was reported that other European countries, including Britain, had been put on alert by the Spanish for the possibility of terror attacks.
Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the Spanish interior minister, said that five homes and a mosque in central Barcelona had been raided and a quantity of bomb-making material had been seized, including four detonators. Twelve Pakistanis and two Indians were arrested on Friday. Rubalcaba said police acted on a tip-off from “another secret service” and discovered that some of those detained were about to purchase explosives.
The arrests were made just days before a visit to Europe this week by Musharraf. He is due to go to France and the UK and attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The minister said that he could not reveal more about the police operation which was continuing but the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), the Spanish secret service, had warned at least four other European countries to prepare for “imminent attacks”.
A source at the CNI told El Pais, the Spanish newspaper, that the countries facing the immediate threat were France, Britain and Portugal.
The same source said police had found triacetone triperoxide in the Barcelona raids. This is a cheap form of explosive used by suicide bombers in the Middle East. It was used by Richard Reid, the thwarted British shoe bomber. The main concern was that it appeared that an unknown quantity of the explosive had been removed before the raids. “We are facing a well organised group that had moved a stage further than just being radicals,” the minister said.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3216714.ece
MOSCOW - Police in southeast Moscow have discovered around 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives stashed in a deserted building, a police spokesman said on Saturday. The tetryl, a solid yellow explosive compound used to make detonators, was found in a deserted outhouse near a gardening club in the capital's Shchyolkovsky District.
Police found "40 metal pipe off-cuts that were previously part of an elongated mine clearing charge, with about 100 kilograms of tetryl inside," the spokesman said. Police believe the tetryl was put there by a local resident previously arrested for possession of explosives.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080119/97343277.html
Pakistani police say avert bomb, cyanide disaster
Sat Jan 19, 2008
KARACHI - Pakistani police said on Saturday they had averted a disaster with the arrest of five militants planning to attack Shi'ite Muslim processions with cyanide and suicide bombs.
The arrests late on Friday in the southern city of Karachi came as minority Shi'ite Muslims across Pakistan gathered for religious commemorations that have in recent years drawn attacks from Sunni Muslim militants. "Their arrest has averted a big disaster ... but the threat of suicide attacks is still there," provincial police chief Azhar Ali Farooqi told a news conference.
The five militants, one of whom was preparing to become a suicide bomber, belonged to different Sunni Muslim militant groups and were picked up in raids in different parts of the city, Farooqi said. "They planned to carry out suicide and grenade attacks on processions," he said.
Police seized 6 kg (13.2 lb) of explosives for use in suicide jackets, 2 kg (4.4 lb) ball bearings, one kg (2.2 lb) of nails, detonators, three hand grenades and two pistols. Police also seized 500 grams (17 oz) of cyanide that Farooqi said was going to be used to poison drinks handed out to people taking part in the Shi'ite processions.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSISL212765
SAN'A, Yemen - Suspected al-Qaida militants opened fire on a convoy of tourists in a remote desert mountain valley Friday, killing two Belgian women and their Yemeni driver. It was the second recent militant attack on foreign tourists in Yemen, the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden.
The victims were traveling in a convoy of at least four vehicles through an ancient, ruin-filled desert valley called Wadi Daw'an in Yemen's eastern Hadramut region when the gunmen attacked, a security official said. Four people were wounded. Karina Lambert, who survived the attack, said it was carried out by four gunmen hiding behind a pickup truck parked by the road.
''They wanted to kill, that's sure, because after the first bursts of machine-gun fire, they approached the vehicles and fired into the cars,'' she told Belgium's RTL-TVI television network. At least 10 suspects have been taken into custody and all roads leading to the province have been cut, said the Yemeni official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=565229606366742900
Explosives found in Jinja (Uganda)
Friday, 18th January, 2008
POLICE in Jinja has recovered 60 live bombs close to a national oil reserve and a railway line. The live explosives were discovered at Kirinya in the south-eastern part of Jinja town after unknown people dumped them in a garbage dumping ground. The South Eastern Regional Police Commander, Christopher Kubai, said security personnel recovered the bombs at around 10:30 am on Wednesday.
One batch of explosives was discovered near the 30-million-litre capacity fuel depot, which is owned by Government but leased out to private oil companies. Another batch was found lying on the railway line along Engineer Dikhusoka road, about 300 metres from the first batch.
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Ping to Oorang’s tetryl and cyanide posts on post no. 771.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947527/posts?page=771#771
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956546/posts
Lighthouse Point: Woman, 53, with black belt in martial arts, tackles burglary suspect
Sun-Sentinel ^ | January 19, 2008 | swampsniper
Posted on 01/19/2008 8:48:58 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
A would-be burglar met his match when he tried to elude Margo Foster, a marathon runner with a black belt in karate who also knows kickboxing and kung fu, police said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=810.0
http://truthusa.com/a/index.php?topic=1538.0
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/01/pakistani_military_c.php
“Pakistani military claims 90 Taliban killed in attacks”
By BILL ROGGIO
(January 18, 2008 6:19 PM)
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/01/pakistani_army_retak.php
“Pakistani army retakes South Waziristan fort”
By BILL ROGGIO
January 19, 2008 9:39 PM
Snippets:
Dengue fever, a flulike illness that infects 50 million to 100 million people a year, has been growing more prevalent and severe as it moves from tropical regions into more temperate areas such as Puerto Rico, where it’s now endemic, and along the U.S. border with Mexico. The disease is caused by a small group of viruses closely related to the West Nile virus.
The CDC estimates that 100 to 200 cases each year are introduced into the United States by travelers.
“The U.S. is not immune to vector-borne viruses” — those spread by insects or animals — “and dengue re-emerging globally should be an eye-opener that it could be the next West Nile virus that hits the United States. It’s endemic in Mexico. It’s endemic in Puerto Rico. It’s all throughout the Caribbean. It’s knocking on our door,” said Barry W. Alto, a postdoctoral associate in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University.
Film could spark new wave of Muslim riots
Officials in the Netherlands, where tensions have been high since a Muslim murdered a filmmaker more than three years ago, are bracing for the release of a new movie by a controversial politician that aims to show Islam's holy book "is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror."
Muslim group sues counter-terrorism activist
A counter-terrorism activist has been sued for protesting an amusement park event sponsored by a Muslim group accused of helping finance the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Joe Kaufman of Florida-based Americans Against Hate says he was at the Six Flags Over Texas park in Arlington Oct. 14 to demonstrate against the Islamic Circle of North America, or ICNA.
Kaufman, writing in FrontPageMagazine, said his purpose was to expose ICNA's alleged ties to the financing of Hamas. ICNA was the top donor to the Pakistan-based charity Al-Khidmat Foundation, Kaufman pointed out, which gave $99,000 to the head of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal.
While criticizing Arizona, Mexico ignores its own hiring laws
Though the Mexican government has blasted Arizona's new employer-sanctions law in the past week, Mexico, too, has federal rules specifically barring companies from hiring illegal immigrants.
Dengue fever...that’s frightening.
I agree. In addition to West Nile Virus, it appears we'll be checking out our symptoms for Dengue Fever. Hopefully the government will be keeping a watchful eye on any "travelers" they suspect may harbor this disease.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080119/ap_on_re_us/navy_terror
“Terror case relies on ‘coded talk’”
By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN, Associated Press Writer
Sat Jan 19, 1:11 PM ET
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In court documents filed last week, prosecutors cite Abu-Jihaad’s “obsession with operation security,” his use of codes and his suspicion of government surveillance to “explain why there is no forensic footprint that directly links the defendant” to the leaked document.
Authorities said Abu-Jihaad spoke of “hot meals” and “cold meals” in conversations with associates to refer to intelligence that would be useful to strike American military targets.”
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